Why some online slot sites don’t accept USA players

August 13th, 2010

Many of you that are residents in the US might be wondering why a large number of online casino and slot sites do not allow you to play. Is it not that they don’t like you. On the contrary, they would love for you to play at their site. The USA has millions on online slot players and these casinos are not shunning away this huge market. The reason they don’t allow US customer is the direct consequence of a online gambling bill ban passed in 2006 by the George Bush administration. This gambling ban does not actually prevent these sites from providing their services to US residents. The gambling ban was established to punish those financial institutions, such as banks or credit card providers, that would allow transactions to online betting sites.

You may be wondering then why some sites do allow US citizens to play while others don’t. The answer is quite simple. Some sites don’t want to get involved with the hassle of having to find alternative payment methods that find legal loopholes so they can process deposits and withdrawals to US players. These method are rare but they do exists. Those sites that accept US players have worked hard over the last 4 years to offer these services openly to their US players, so they can deposit and withdraw safely. Credit card deposits are still available to US players but withdrawals cannot be credited back to the cards. The reason for this is that credit or debit card deposits are hard to track down. How can Visa know when it’s a purchase on the internet for an innocuous item, like a T-shirt, or when it’s for a casino deposit. The difficulty if tracking down betting deposits has allowed some online casinos to still accept this method.

We hope you are now clear why there is this schism with online gambling. In the near future it may change as new bills are being proposed to overturn the gambling ban from 2006.